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Re: File Size
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lugnet.space
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Wed, 9 Jul 2003 21:21:19 GMT
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There’s a distinction tha needs to be made here. The compression of a photo
is not as important as the overall size of the photo.
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I disagree a smaller file size is far more important to me than resolution size.
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Keep in mind that your
camera or scanner scans in an image of a given size (which these days is
pretty darn big). What you want to do is to reduce the size ofthe picture so
a person can load it quickly and view it without scrolling their window.
I use Photoshop, so I will make an assumption that your program is pretty
close to mine. What you want to do is go to the Image Size box (should be in
the Image tab) and change your size to something like a 640 pixel width. That
will make the picture fit most screens and do a lot toward making your file
smaller. If you want to keep your original image, go to Save as... and rename
the smaller file you just did.
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I use Photoshop as well so... When you save as a 640x480 jpeg using a
compression of 5, it usually makes the file size 50-80k depending on how busy
the picture is. However when using a compression of 10 it makes an image
200-300k with very little (if any noticable) gain in picture quality. Personally
I would consider a 640x480 image in the 50-80k range “optimal viewing”. If it is
impossible to keep the resolution size 640x480 then try to make the file size as
small as possible.
Example: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=422137
Keep in mind I use a desktop screen resolution of 1024x768 and have a lowly
dial-up connection to the internet.
-Mike Petrucelli
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) Okay...so where is the command where you can change the compression from 10 to 5?? (URL) (21 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| In lugnet.space, Nathan Wells wrote: (some major league snippage, with apologies to the previous posters) (...) There's a distinction tha needs to be made here. The compression of a photo is not as important as the overall size of the photo. Keep in (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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